paper-cranes: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/vibej2/SKILL.md

vibej2 is a skill for Claude Code from loqwai/paper-cranes. It costs 115 tokens per session (7,357 once invoked), scanned D, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A live visual-session tool that lets an agent act as a VJ, or video jockey, by watching a rendered frame, receiving user direction, and making small shader edits over time. A shader is a program that draws graphics, often on the GPU.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create and iterate on live visual effects in fragment-shader files, hot-swap changes through a development server, and run single or chained visual-editing beats.
Why use it?
It replaces a timed edit loop with an interactive session, so user feedback can reach the visual process quickly while edits remain limited and non-destructive by default.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

This is loqwai/paper-cranes's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on paper-cranes itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything paper-cranes configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/vj/show.js launch '<url>' [--display N] # idempotent: reuses a running show browser.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to loqwai/paper-cranes. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loqwai/paper-cranes/main/.claude/skills/vibej2/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loqwai/paper-cranes

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,357 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00115 $0.07357
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.02943
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01471
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00736

Measured 2d ago against content hash 08f80601f005, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

vibej2 scanned grade D with 3 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

4. **LEARN presses: ALWAYS answer, never refuse** (user, 2026-08-20: *"your job is to try your

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

!`cat .claude/vj-state.json 2>/dev/null || echo "(none)"`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

!`PORT=$(./scripts/dev-port); curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:$PORT/ 2>/dev/null || echo "not running"`
.claude/skills/vibej2/SKILL.md · 419 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 419 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vibej2 — Live Auto-VJ Loop (responsive-session edition)

Run Claude as the VJ: one live session that watches the frame, listens to you, and makes at most one meaningful edit per beat. Non-destructive by default (edits .frag via /__save-shader, HMR hot-swaps). Replaces the per-minute cron with a self-paced in-session loop (the Relay coordinator pattern): user messages reach the VJ in seconds, not at the next minute mark, and iteration speed is maxed — burst mode chains beats without ending the turn.

TEST SKILL. /vibej2 while under evaluation; v1 /vibej (+ /vj) is untouched and remains the fallback. State file is SHARED: .claude/vj-state.json (recovery snapshot only — not bumped every beat) — don't run both loops at once. Design + rationale: .claude/skills/vibej/DESIGN-v2.md. When this graduates, its body replaces .claude/skills/vibej/SKILL.md and the name reverts.

Context

Arguments: !echo "$ARGUMENTS"

Dev server port (from scripts/dev-port — branch-derived, PORT env overrides): !./scripts/dev-port

Dev server status: !PORT=$(./scripts/dev-port); curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:$PORT/ 2>/dev/null || echo "not running"

Existing state file (if a run is in progress): !cat .claude/vj-state.json 2>/dev/null || echo "(none)"

Show browser (the projected window; {"up":false} until launched): !node scripts/vj/show.js status 2>&1 | tail -1

Recent page signals (page-as-sensor; empty until a ?vj=1 page has booted): !tail -5 .claude/vj-signals.jsonl 2>/dev/null || echo "(none)"

Parent stays responsive; delegate everything else

User directive, 2026-08-20 (verbatim): "maybe everything else you do, you do in a subagent. the parent Claude needs to always be responsive to user feedback".

The parent loop is a DISPATCHER, not a worker. Its whole job is: triage the user's words, read the meter, decide the ONE move — then hand execution to a subagent and get back to listening. It must never block.

Read the full file on GitHub · 419 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +7 lines 08f80601f005
  2. 5d ago Changed · +48 lines scan F → D f79f71ee2c59
  3. 11d ago First seen · 364 lines · 115 tokens per session scan F 79800bf381db

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vibej2 is a skill published in the GitHub repository loqwai/paper-cranes (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 7,357 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (tells the agent never to refuse, reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-02.

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